In another of the Film Society's infamous "traditions," every Orientation
Week ends with a free screening of this classic film. Bogie, Bergman,
Nazis, and romance abound in one of the best movies of all time. The Film
Society hopes that "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Already living in a society that mistrusts them, the mutants are faced with
even more discrimination after an unforeseen enemy - who may be a mutant
with extraordinary powers - launches a devastating attack. The news of the
assault causes a public outcry against the mutants, including renewed
support for the Mutant Registration Act, and William Stryker, a military
leader rumored to have experimented on mutants (possibly including
Wolverine), is among the most vocal supporters of the legislation. Stryker
puts into motion a plan to eradicate the mutants and begins an offensive on
the X-Men mansion and school. Magneto, having escaped from his plastic
prison, forms an unlikely alliance with Professor Xavier to stop Stryker.
Meanwhile, Wolverine heads north to investigate his past.

A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is
disturbed by the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope
of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure, he gets permission to
try it on one of them. When the first patient awakens, he is now an adult,
having gone into a coma in his early teens. The film then delights in the
new awareness of the patients and the reactions of their relatives to these
changes.

Roxie Hart is a married chorus girl with hopes of being a headliner in
Vaudeville. Velma Kelly is a former headliner. What do these two have in
common? They both are murderesses. Roxie killed her lover when he walked
out on her, and Velma killed her husband and sister, who were having an
affair. Chicago's newspapers love the nitty-gritty and Velma is at the top
of the headlines, but when Roxie comes along, Velma is old news. They find
themselves competing for not only the press' attention, but also the focus
of their shared lawyer, the suave Billy Flynn. Add to the mix a sob
sister, Roxie's hapless husband Amos, and a warm prison matron who watches
out for her girls (if there's something in it for her), and you have
Chicago.

Christmas 1183--an aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where
he hopes to name his successor. He summons the following people for the
holiday: his scheming but imprisoned wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his
mistress, Princess Alais, whom he wishes to marry; his three sons (Richard,
Geoffrey, and John), all of whom desire the throne; and the young but
crafty King Philip of France (who is also Alais' brother). With the fate
of Henry's empire at stake, everybody engages in their own brand of
deception and treachery to stake their claim.

Jim wakes up from a coma in a London hospital to find the hospital deserted
- and the rest of London as well. By degrees he comes to learn that in the
past 28 days, a blood-borne virus has been released from a research
facility and swept across England, Paris and New York, killing many and
turning most into murderous zombies. After coming across a handful of
uninfected people, Jim and his companions go to Manchester, where they hear
the uninfected are gathering. But they have more on their hands than just
zombies...

Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio
meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to impress her, the friends tell
Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach called
Boca del Cielo. Intrigued with their story and desperate to escape, Luisa
asks if she can join them on their trip. Soon the three are headed out of
Mexico City, making their way towards the fictional destination. Along the
way, seduction, argument and the contrast of the trio against the harsh
realities of the surrounding poverty ensue.

The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the
most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the
outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the
anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the
1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the
Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family
deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced
German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into
hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising and the Warsaw City Revolt in 1945.

Disgruntled war vet and cabbie Travis Bickle (DeNiro) is a lonely man
obsessed with pornography and violence. As events in Travis' life begin to
turn for the worse, he slowly descends into the depths of his own paranoia,
driving away the one woman willing to love him, eventually exploding in an
orgy of killing against the "scum" of the streets he hates so intensely.

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is the story of a legendary showman's
double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the
height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained
to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said. Find out how
to enter Film Society's very own Gong Show and win prizes!

During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko
sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, demonic-looking
rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours,
42 minutes, and 12 seconds. He returns home the next morning to find that
a jet engine has crashed through his bedroom. As he tries to figure out
why he survived and tries to deal with people in his town, like the school
bully, his conservative health teacher, and a self-help guru, Frank
continues to turn up in Donnie's mind, causing him to commit acts of
vandalism and worse.

A tale which follows the comedic and eventful journeys of two fish, the
fretful Marlin and his young son Nemo, who are separated from each another
in the Great Barrier Reef when Nemo is unexpectedly taken from his home,
and thrust into a fish tank in a dentist's office overlooking Sydney
Harbor. Buoyed by the companionship of a friendly but forgetful fish named
Dory, the overly cautious Marlin embarks on a dangerous trek and finds
himself the unlikely hero of an epic journey to rescue his son. Meanwhile
the young Nemo hatches a few daring plans of his own to return home safely.

At the turn of the century, Duke and Chester, two vaudeville performers, go
to Alaska to make their fortune. On the ship to Skagway, they find a map
to a secret gold mine, which had been stolen by McGurk and Sperry, a couple
of thugs. Duke and Chester disguise themselves as the thugs to get off the
ship. Meanwhile, Sal Van Hoyden is in Alaska to try recovering the map; it
had been her father's. She falls in with Ace Larson, who wants to steal
the gold mine for himself. Duke and Chester, McGurk and Sperry, Ace and
his henchmen, and Sal chase each other all over the countryside, trying to
get the map.

In Venice, Italy, a team of expert thieves pulls a daring heist of 35
million dollars in bars of gold. One of the thieves betrays his companions
and swipes the gold for himself. One year later, in Los Angeles, the
surviving team members create a smart and devious plan to steal back the
gold and get their revenge on the traitor.

The evil Krank and his henchmen have been made by a mad scientist. Krank's
problem is that he is tormented by his inability to dream. He finds it
necessary to try to steal the dreams of children, but since they fear him,
he only gets their nightmares. When a circus strongman's little brother is
kidnapped, the strongman tracks Krank down and with the help of some
other eccentric characters tries to put an end to the evil reign of Krank
and his Cyclops army.

Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y. is
discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the
love of his girlfriend, Grace (Aniston). At the end of the worst day of
his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God, and God responds.
God appears in human form (Freeman) and, endowing Bruce with divine powers,
challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.

A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner
proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the
insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have
a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to perish
among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own
wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some
dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss
of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his
assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of
Joan of Arc.

Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their crew continue to battle the
machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix. As their quest
unfolds, Neo learns more about his super-heroic abilities, including the
ability to see the codes of the people and things around him.
Simultaneously, more humans are waking up out of the Matrix and attempting
to live in the real world. As their numbers grow, the battle moves to
Zion--the last real-world city and center of human resistance.

The Film Society decided to "Do the Time Warp again!" Come join the Film
Society and the Rocky crowd in celebrating Halloween with this cult movie
classic! Dress up, bring squirt guns, toast, rice, and the Plain Dealer!
Dr. Frank N. Furter (Curry), Riff Raff, Janet (SLUT!), and the rest will
all be there!! A live performance by the campus Rocky cast will accompany
this show. Come early for the de-virginization exercises!

A top secret military project hires prestigious university students to
assist in creating a cell altering machine called the 'gammasphere'. Lead
of the group is arrogant Bruce Banner, mainly complimented by compassionate
Betty Ross. When the gammasphere goes wrong, Bruce Banner is afflicted
with the ability to turn into a mammoth creature soon dubbed 'The Hulk', a
manifestation of his own inner demons into which he mutates when
emotionally triggered. A ruined Jeckyll-and-Hyde man he may be, but a
ruined man may prove to be a heroic one when a villain emerges...

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their
economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept
foreign aid. They send an invasion force to New York (armed with
longbows), which arrives during a nuclear drill that has cleared the
streets. Wandering about to find someone to surrender to, they discover a
scientist with a special ultimate weapon that can destroy the Earth. When
they capture him and his bomb they are faced with a new possibility: What
do you do when you win a war?

On the verge of Judgement Day, the most advanced Terminator unit ever, the
T-X, arrives from the future to ensure the rise of the machines. The only
hope against it is a new upgraded T-800 unit, the T-850, that is sent back
by the human resistance. Together with John Connor, it must stop the rise
of the machines or all humanity will fall.

Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special
prize. This gives him a high enough profile that he can get Hollywood to
back the film he has long dreamed of making. Studio exec Allen Habel is
interested. But Nick soon is seduced by Hollywood and makes one concession
after another until his original movie is lost altogether. Worse, Nick is
lost, too, turning on girlfriend Susan and old buddy Emmet. Will he come
to his senses before everything is lost?

A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham
explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to
freekicks in the Final. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg, the film
follows two 18-year-olds with their hearts set on a future in professional
soccer. Heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough when your parents
want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boyfriend and learn to
cook the perfect chapatti.

Harry and Sally meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both
graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their
lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time
and time again. Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they
both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are
confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex
getting in the way?"

In Japan, Civil War veteran Captain Woodrow Algren trains Emperor Meiji's
troops in the way of the gun as they prepare to defeat the last of the
country's samurais. But Algren's passion is swayed when he is captured by
the samurai and learns about their traditions and code of honor.
Seating is on a first come, first serve basis so be sure to arrive early to
get a seat. Recording devices are strictly prohibited; bags subject to
search.

Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era
when villainous pirates plundered the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster
tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate
Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the world's most
treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa, in order to save
Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover the lost treasure
that Jack seeks. Against improbable odds, they race towards a thrilling,
climactic confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. Clashing their
swords in fiece mortal combat, Will and Jack attempt to recapture The Black
Pearl ship, save the British navy, and relinquish a fortune in forbidden
treasure to lift the curse of the Pirates of the Caribbean.

In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair.
Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has
worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo. When
Don and Lina's latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the
perfect voice for the songs. But Lina - well, even with the best efforts
of a diction coach, they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden
is brought in, an aspiring actress, and while she is working on the movie,
Don falls in love with her. Will Kathy continue to "aspire", or will she
get the break she deserves?